Re: [Evolution] Problems getting to Gmail

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 08:57 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 19:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > It's set to "Defer to desktop preferences", which in turn is set to 
> >
> > "no proxy".
>
>       Hi,
> setting "Direct connection" would be safer. If I recall correctly, 
> then
> there used to be a "problem" that the system proxy settings were 
> moved,
> but the evolution code didn't know it and read it from the old keys.
> Probably not the case now, as it's long time ago; I do not know.

None of the options is "direct connection". I see:

Defer to Desktop
Manual
Automatic
None

Automatic wants me to give a URL to get the settings from, so
presumably I have to specify Manual and fill in the various fields by
hand. Is that what you mean?

poc